Senior Software Engineer at Prodigy Finance

What are some of the responsibilities of this role?

• Be an integral and trusted member of the Tech team
• Be a mentor and pair-code with other team members regularly
• Make an impactful contribution, ask great questions, and execute high quality work
• Take responsibility for the state of the code you produce and inherit
• Find and propose ways our codebase, conventions and ways of working could be improved
• Researching and staying abreast of key technical developments, industry trends and innovations

What would the ideal candidate be great at?

• Technical acumen: evolving our iOS and Android applications, and some lightweight backend services using React Native, Redux, Redux-Saga, Node.JS, Nest.JS and Jest (with some Objective C/Swift and Java/Kotlin as required)
• Technical competence: love coding, able to learn new paradigms quickly and look to continuously improve and find better ways of doing things
• Excellent critical judgment: able to make good decisions, be trusted, respected and dependable, be proactive and responsive, ask the right questions, raise flags at the right time, able to prioritize and plan your own individual tasks
• Mindfulness: be considerate of the implications of your work, really care about what you are doing and the impact of your contribution
• Teamwork and team spirit: we are all contributing to the same platforms, so you need to not only be a great individual contributor but be more motivated by the achievements of the whole team - we only win if the team wins, see the impact of your own work and positively influence and help the work of others
• Getting up to the front of the bus: get stuck in, execute, generate ideas, have an impact, don’t just sit back and be a passenger

Qualifications and experience

• 6+ years of professional experience in programming
• 2+ years experience in React Native / React Web development
• 1+ year experience with Node backend (Express, Nest.js or similar)
• Solid experience in vanilla JavaScript, including ES6 features
• Strong appreciation for UI/UX standards and a passion for developing beautiful interfaces
• Knowledge of professional software engineering practices and best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations
• Experience in developing RESTful API backends and microservices
• Demonstrated track record of working with relational databases, e.g. PostgreSQL.

Experience that is nice to have (but we’ll trade off if everything else fits)

• Unit testing with Jest and experience with TDD
• Native mobile experience, in either iOS or Android
• Experience with build-pipelines & Continuous Integration systems, using the likes of Github Actions, Jenkins and Fastlane
• Comfortable with cloud platforms such as AWS
• Experience with the Redux unidirectional data flow pattern, Redux-Saga experience would be highly advantageous
• Experience with Gatsby and static websites
• Experience with Next.JS and server side rendering 
• Functional programming
• Experience with Python or Ruby
• A willingness to learn other languages if needed